My Commitment To Democratic Struggle Beyond Election Season – Atiku

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has denied giving surrendering his legal process to challenge and authenticates the outcome of the 2023 presidential election on Saturday February 2023.

VerseNews Nigeria reports that Atiku in a statement he released on Saturday, march 26 dismissed the reports that he has decided to accept the outcome of the presidential election that produced Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as President-Elect.

The former Nigeria vice-president stated that his lawyers and party are still determined to challenge the presidential results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for aimed at deepening democracy.

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He said; “I have been notified of a fake press release attributed to me and purportedly giving legitimacy to the widely rigged presidential election of February 25.”

“The so-called press release did not emanate from me or my office, and it should be treated with repudiation, untrue, and deliberately contrived by those who illegally appropriated the mandate of the Nigerian people.”

“For the avoidance of any doubt, I wish to state categorically that my lawyers still have my unflinching mandate to challenge the outcome of the February 25 presidential election.

“I join other lovers of democracy in Nigeria and friends of our great country in the outright rejection of the pre-determined outcome of the February 25 election.

I shall continue to challenge the legality of that election alongside my party, the Peoples Democratic Party.”

“The decision to challenge the sham election of February 25, the worst election in our democratic history, is not predicated on my personal interest but on the interest of Nigeria and its people. It is aimed at deepening democracy and ensuring that we do not confer legitimacy to an outcome of illegitimacy.

“My commitment to the democratic struggle in Nigeria is beyond an election season.”